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Overreacting, catastrophizing, maximizing, overplaying… We have many words for exaggeration. However, all exaggeration mostly falls under three categories.

The psychological term for jumping to conclusions is “inference-observation confusion”, which is when people make an inference but fail to label it as one.

Historians and physicians alike are constantly fighting an invisible beast: the hindsight bias, also known as creeping determinism, which is the tendency for people to perceive past outcomes as having been more predictable than they actually were. Linked to distortions of our memories, the hindsight bias causes us to think we knew how an event ... Read More

Survivorship bias is a common bias that leads to false conclusions by focusing on the elements that made it past a selection process, and overlooking the ones that did not.

“This is just wrong.” How many times have you heard that phrase during a heated conversation? Such categorical statements never seem to help in coming to an agreement, or at least to create opportunities to learn. Whether at an interpersonal level or at a broader scale, a lack of nuanced thinking can have a significant ... Read More

The negativity bias shows that not only do we register negative events more readily, but we also tend to dwell on these events for longer.

"I'll be there in 10 minutes!" We tend to underestimate the time it will take to complete an action. That's the planning fallacy at play.

Why do ignorant folks tend to overestimate the extent of their knowledge? How do incompetent people often seem to be unaware of how deficient their expertise is? Turns out, we are not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. And one of the most obvious manifestations of this psychological deficiency is the Dunning–Kruger effect, the cognitive ... Read More

Confirmation bias is a common type of cognitive bias: the more we believe in something, the more likely we are to search for confirming evidence.

Scenario 1 – Joe and Jane decided to play a game in which they toss a coin a few times. Every time a head came up, Joe had to give Jane $10 and every time a tail came up, Jane had to give Joe $10. They could toss the coin any number of times they ... Read More

When I was a kid, I used to think I was doing much better at tests when using a particular pencil my sister had gifted me. So I would make sure to use this pen for every test. I have a friend who thinks that city people are generally rude. So when he meets a ... Read More

Have you ever had a teacher who was very smart, but also terrible at actual teaching? An expert who used so much jargon you could not quite follow their explanation? This is called the “curse of knowledge”, a term coined in 1989 by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber. It’s a cognitive bias ... Read More

The world is much more complex than we realise. The Cobra Effect is when an attempted solution results in unintended consequences.

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A deep dive into their data & analytics cloud platform, and the many use cases it is enabling.

A deep dive into their Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform.

A deep dive into the architecture of edge networks, and the many benefits and features that now arise.

Snowflake has created the ability to scale upon scale upon scale, and has added new programmability features to enable a whole new breed of data services.

A look at the vital Kafka platform from Confluent, who went public in Jun-21.

A deep dive into cybersecurity SaaS providers.

Insights from ElasticON 2020 developer conference.

A look at their open-source search platform & search-oriented SaaS services.

It's been a busy 2020 for Cloudflare. Let's dive into their edge compute and Zero Trust moves.

What is the Secure Access Service Edge? A way to interconnect everything, showing how edge networks have the clear advantage.

A deep dive into the architecture of edge networks, and the many benefits and features that now arise.

A look at the Zero Trust ecosystem, and how Okta and CrowdStrike are positioning themselves as invaluable partners.

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, the commercial backer of open source CMS, WordPress.

WooCommerce began life as WooThemes, a small design firm that didn’t look very different from the many others that created WordPress themes.